{"id":470,"date":"2008-05-30T03:25:45","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T03:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/may-our-baptist-missionary-heritage\/"},"modified":"2014-01-26T00:55:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T00:55:00","slug":"may-our-baptist-missionary-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/may-our-baptist-missionary-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Baptist Missionary Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Retracing the steps of our Baptist and Independent forefathers is always an enriching experience.\u00a0 Whether one learns of those brave souls who endured terrible torture and death, or those who languished in prison, or those who fought theological and apologetic battles for the faith, it is always good to be put in remembrance of our heritage.\u00a0 Having recently returned from another Baptist History module in England and Scotland, I am again encouraged and enlightened in my own Christian walk.\u00a0 Sometimes the reality of what others did for Christ long ago does not seem close to home until we put our feet on the same soil or walk through the same streets and buildings or even jail cells.\u00a0 This is true in Bible lands and also in Christian history lands.<\/span><\/p>\n

The approximately five hundred years between the Protestant Reformation and today is an amazing part of history for all Christian denominations, but especially those independent Bible believing churches like the Baptists who were truly the \u201cstep-children\u201d of the Reformation.<\/p>\n

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Protestant Struggle<\/h2>\n

In England in the mid 1500s, Protestants were being put to death by \u201cBloody\u201d Mary Tudor at Smithfield, the Tower of London, and various other notorious places.\u00a0 John Rogers, compiler of the Matthew\u2019s Bible, was the first to burn in Mary\u2019s fires.\u00a0 After being held in Newgate Prison he was led to Smithfield Market for execution (the infamous market where William Wallace was tortured centuries before).\u00a0 Both prison and market are within sight of his own parish church.\u00a0 Rogers\u2019 wife and eleven children managed only a few words of encouragement before the man of God was placed in the flames.\u00a0 Rather than recanting, Rogers washed his hands in the flames, \u201cas if it had been cold water\u201d and lifted his hands toward heaven until death came.\u00a0 John Bradford, who would soon find the same fate, wrote to Thomas Cranmer, Hugh Latimer, and Nicholas Ridley who were being held at Oxford until their own executions, and said, \u201cOur dear brother Rogers has broken the ice valiantly.\u201d\u00a0 So began Mary\u2019s 45-month reign of terror which saw over 300 Protestants burn for refusing her Catholic mass.<\/p>\n

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Independent Baptist Struggle<\/h2>\n

A hundred years passes quickly but can turn the world upside down.\u00a0 By 1660 Cromwell\u2019s Commonwealth had ended, British Monarchy was restored, and the Church of England was again the official state Church.\u00a0 By 1662 the Act of Conformity was in effect requiring all clergy of any religion to give full consent to everything in the Church of England Prayer Book.\u00a0 Now the same belief system that was persecuted by the Roman Catholic system was itself persecuting others who would not worship as it demanded.\u00a0 It was during the latter half of this century that John Bunyan, converted tinker and veteran of Cromwell\u2019s army, began preaching publicly and without the Prayer Book.\u00a0 In addition to that offense, the recently passed Conventicle Act forbid any attendance at a public religious meeting other than the state church.\u00a0 Bunyan could abide neither, was arrested, and imprisoned for twelve years.\u00a0 At the end of that time, when he was eligible for release upon promise not to violate these codes, Bunyan assured his captors that if he were released, he would be preaching again within the day.\u00a0 He was placed in the river bridge gaol for another three years.\u00a0 It was during these years that Bunyan left the Christian world the most published book in the world except for the Bible Itself, The Pilgrim\u2019s Progress.<\/p>\n

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Evangelistic Baptist Struggle<\/h2>\n

We may carry our upside down story a little further.\u00a0 Fast forward another hundred years and we find evangelical Christianity at peace in England and Scotland with state and dissenting churches free to worship as their consciences dictated.\u00a0 Baptist churches had flourished as they always have in times of religious tolerance.\u00a0 Particular Baptists (Calvinistic) as well as General Baptists (less Calvinistic and\/or Arminian) had flourished and settled into their patterns of belief and worship.\u00a0 Among the Particular Baptists, John Gill, pastor of New Park Street in London (later to become Metropolitan Tabernacle), was known for his hyper-Calvinism.\u00a0 Gill had been born in Kettering in the Midlands.\u00a0 Many others were ardent proponents of this theology as well, including John Rylands, Sr. of College Lane Baptist Church of Northampton in the Midlands.<\/p>\n

The Midlands, as the middle section of England is called, would become the cradle of the most important missionary venture of modern times.\u00a0 With a certain coldness settling in over the churches, God began building a fire under a group of young independent Baptists, including John Rylands, Jr., son of (also co-pastor with) the influential pastor in Northhampton.\u00a0 The Baptist churches held monthly associational meetings but seldom was there a challenge for missions.\u00a0 In 1779, Robert Hall, Sr., pastor at Arnsby preached a sermon to the monthly meeting from Isa. 57:14 on the obligation to world-wide missions.\u00a0 This stirred four young men who began monthly prayer meetings regarding their obligation to missionary work.\u00a0 They were John Rylands, Jr., John Sutcliff of Olney, Andrew Fuller of Kettering, and an even younger man from Moulton named William Carey.\u00a0 They also began reading literature on revival from an American theologian named Jonathan Edwards.<\/p>\n

In 1785 young Andrew Fuller, pastor of Gold Street Baptist Church in Kettering, published a tract titled, \u201cThe Gospel Worthy of all Acceptation\u201d in which he urged that it was the duty of all gospel preachers to give the unconverted an opportunity to be saved.\u00a0 Meanwhile, in Moulton, William Carey was already drawing a map of the world for his young pupils and was growing burdened for the vast people groups of the world.\u00a0 In 1791 Carey also published a tract titled, \u201cAn Inquiry into the obligations of Christians to use means for the conversion of the heathen.\u201d\u00a0 Carey argued that the Great Commission was not fulfilled by the Apostles and that if we still had the obligation to baptize and teach (which even the most Calvinistic obviously practiced) then we also had the obligation to go into all the world and preach the gospel.<\/p>\n

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Missionary Baptist Struggle<\/h2>\n

In the following decade events would transpire more quickly toward the establishment of modern missions.\u00a0 On April 27, 1791 in the associational meeting at Clipston, Andrew Fuller of Kettering, and John Sutcliff of Olney preached on the necessity of missionary work by the churches.\u00a0 A similar meeting was held in Northampton where John Rylands, Sr. presided over the session.\u00a0 Carey rose to ask the association to consider whether the Great Commission to take the gospel into all the world was not obligatory on all ministers in all ages.\u00a0 It was such a provocative question that the others could hardly believe he would dare to ask it.\u00a0 Incensed, Rylands, Sr., rose, fixed his eyes on Carey, and said, \u201cSit down, young man, you are an enthusiast.\u00a0 When God pleases to convert the heathen, He\u2019ll do it without your help or mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the fire was lit and would not be extinguished.\u00a0 On May 29, 1792 Carey was to preach in Nottingham, at Friar Lane Baptist Chapel.\u00a0 This was the opportunity for which he had been waiting.\u00a0 Carey preached from Isa. 54:2-3, \u201cEnlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitation.\u201d\u00a0 From this sermon came his nearly immortal words, \u201cExpect great things from God, attempt great things for God.\u201d\u00a0 But Carey was to be somewhat disappointed.\u00a0 He had urged his friends the night before, as they talked late into the night at the Angel Inn, to do something of a definite nature about world-wide missions.\u00a0 But the meeting ended with no action taken.<\/p>\n

On October 2, 1792 the pastors\u2019 meeting would be in Kettering at the church of Andrew Fuller.\u00a0 As was their custom, they met the previous night at an Inn for fellowship.\u00a0 This time they stayed in the house-turned-Inn of a member of the church, the Widow Wallis.\u00a0 About a dozen men sat up late into the night while Carey read how the Moravian missionaries had been used of God in great ways.\u00a0 By the end of the evening a resolution was passed:<\/p>\n

Humbly desirous of making an effort for the propagation of the Gospel among the Heathen, according to the recommendations of Carey\u2019s Enquiry, we unanimously resolve to act in Society together for this purpose; and, as in the divided state of Christendom, each denomination, by exerting itself separately, seems likeliest to accomplish the great end, we name this the Particular Baptist Society for the Propagation of the Gospel amongst the Heathen.\u201d<\/p>\n

An offering was taken that night which amounted to a little over thirteen pounds.\u00a0 Names and amounts were recorded which are still available to the public.\u00a0 Surprisingly, Carey\u2019s name is not on the list!\u00a0 He was so poor he could not give but promised rather that, if they would all hold the ropes, he would descend into India to mine for souls!\u00a0 From that day Carey became the first and life-long missionary and Andrew Fuller the first and life-long secretary.\u00a0 The Baptist Missionary Society (BMS as it was referred to) became the model for Faith Missions and Carey, the Father of Modern Missions.\u00a0 Carey went to India and never returned and is buried there still.\u00a0 Fuller went on to be a great theologian and ambassador for the BMS and for all foreign missions.<\/p>\n

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Local Baptist Church Struggle<\/h2>\n

Our story doesn\u2019t end in the Midlands.\u00a0 Although the BMS strongly influenced churches in London, it also had a providential effect in Scotland.\u00a0 The Baptist movement there had various beginnings but none more influential than the Haldane brothers, Robert and James.\u00a0 At a time when most Scottish Independents were overly influenced by Presbyterian principles (non-immersion, elder rule), the Haldanes became convinced of adult baptism and congregational rule.\u00a0 One of their converts, Christopher Anderson heard Andrew Fuller preach on missions while in Scotland and surrendered to the mission field.\u00a0 After attending Bible College in Bristol, health issues forbade him to go to the field.\u00a0 Anderson returned to Edinburgh and began a church in Richmond Court which maintained a strong missionary zeal due to the influence of Fuller and the BMS.\u00a0 The church collected money for the BMS and itself sent two missionaries to work with Carey in India.\u00a0 That same church later purchased a building off Charlotte Square which is today still called Charlotte Baptist Chapel.\u00a0 It has had illustrious pastors such as Graham Scroggie and J. Sidlow Baxter.<\/p>\n

A century later, Charles Haddon Spurgeon would call Andrew Fuller the greatest theologian of the nineteenth century.\u00a0 Spurgeon himself carried on the Baptist conviction of soul-winning and world-wide missions from a Particular Baptist perspective.\u00a0 Metropolitan Tabernacle still sells Carey\u2019s and Fuller\u2019s books for its congregation and visitors.<\/p>\n

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And So . . . .<\/h2>\n

Baptists, mere step-children of Reformers and disconnected entirely from Rome, never persecuted anyone.\u00a0 They have wrangled among themselves but only pursued others with ideas and truth.\u00a0 Their faithfulness to evangelism and missions was born out of difficulty and perpetuated by obedience to God\u2019s command.\u00a0 We are still practicing Faith Missions in our independent churches largely after the model that was born in the Widow Wallis\u2019 house that night in 1792, which, according to those faithful men, was born in the pages of God\u2019s Word.<\/p>\n

The twenty-first century must be influenced also by Baptist missionary work.\u00a0 It must also be grounded in the understanding of the depravity and lostness of the multitudes of the world\u2019s people groups.\u00a0 It must preach the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone for forgiveness of sin and access to God the Father.\u00a0 It must baptize those who will believe by faith and establish churches to teach them all things that the Lord Jesus taught us, especially that we too must go into all the world and give men the opportunity to respond to the gospel.\u00a0 It is not necessarily ours to win the whole world, but it is ours to evangelize the world with the Good News that Jesus saves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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